Negro Sinful Songs
by Lead Belly

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Negro Sinful Songs by Lead Belly
Year: 1939
Overall rank: 6,892nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 50 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Best album of 1939 (1st)
Award Best album of of the 1930s (1st)
Award Best albums of all time (6,892nd)

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Lead Belly bestography

Negro Sinful Songs is ranked 2nd best out of 48 albums by Lead Belly on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lead Belly is The Midnight Special (And Other Southern Prison Songs) which is ranked number 4182 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 349.

Lead Belly album bestography « Higher ranked (4,182nd)
The Midnight Special (And Other Southern Prison Songs) This album (6,892nd)
Negro Sinful Songs Lower ranked (6,892nd) »
Negro Sinful Songs

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Overall rank: 6,892nd | 1930s rank: 1st | 1939 rank: 1st  Overall chart history
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Negro Sinful Songs ratings

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 !		10/04/2026 09:23 Pienk  Ratings distribution  74680/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 73.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.


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Negro Sinful Songs forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 10/04/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5455): By ThaCrookedSpoke
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From baystateoftheart 10/19/2024 19:46 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
“1. I've heard so much about Lead Belly, so I'm glad to finally listen to his music. This is one of the first proper albums ever. Raw, unvarnished folk and blues with pretty rough sound quality (as might be expected for a 30s album). In addition to penning his own songs, Lead Belly interprets…”
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From 10/21/2018 00:29 | #222833 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A raw and distressing collection of work songs from Huddie William Ledbetter, known as Lead Belly. The importance of this record should not be understated.
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From 02/20/2018 16:40 | #208942 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Influential blues with an authentic feel for the era.
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Incredible work. I'm so happy the technology existed at the time to allow this to be made.
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From 04/04/2024 11:27 | #302845 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole - The Gallis Pole (Edited)
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From 01/29/2018 18:11 | #206775 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Woah. Completely blew me away, especially that last track.
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Best Albums of  1939
1. Negro Sinful Songs by Lead Belly